I notice that everyone’s favourite slow, clunky and nearly unusable photo sharing site has finally left beta. Now, obviously, this is a troubling development for the Web2.0 world, because – as we all know – everything in Web2.0 has to be in a permanent test phase, otherwise they might have to stop producing useless buggy pieces of AJAX uselessness and actually release something. So, their solution? They’re now in gamma! Yep, that’s right – throw away your software engineering textbook, Granddad, here at flickr, we’re rewritin’ the rules! Yeehaw!

I assume you want to get to Old Trafford. You are, as you may or may not realise, quite some way away from it. At your current rate of progress, I reckon that you’ll probably make it by about the half time, assuming that your stumblings down the centre of the road don’t lead to you getting hit by a bus. Might I politely suggest you get a taxi? And also, that you shut the hell up. Thanks.

Our pastor is on sabbatical at the moment. Apparently, one of the books he’s been studying during this time is that good ol’ heretic Brian McLaren‘s manifesto for the Emergent movement, A Generous Orthodoxy. Given how much this book has upset the TR types (and I’m working on the assumption my pastor isn’t one here, which I hope is a valid assumption) I’m taking this as a very positive sign inded.

I snapped this video with my phone last night at the Fiery Furnaces gig. I’m quite impressed with the quality – you can actually, like, make out the song and everthing. It would be longer, but someone wanted to get to the bar and I was in their way.